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Speaker 1: The Closer Chris Betcher. What's up, Chris? What's up? Guys?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? It's your boy the Closer assist
Speaker 1: his favorite sportscaster and uh, you know, I'm ready to
Speaker 1: go right and around here to talk some sports. UM.
Speaker 1: I did want to say, I'm a little upset about
Speaker 1: the vetted thing. Sorry, a little upset. I'm training for me.
Speaker 1: Do you have a moment of silence for his fantasy value? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, I think that it's really not that bad.
Speaker 1: I think I would still stash him. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: and I obviously disagree as we had last hour. Okay,
Speaker 1: Rangers and Angels. We want to go next is Mike
Speaker 1: Miner pitched a complete games shut out, three hitter walked
Speaker 1: to strug out seven the ear and the year sits
Speaker 1: at two point six. Oh, we just ran through Frank
Speaker 1: the a l and how they're not very good in
Speaker 1: general hitting wise. Mike Minor little about a second half
Speaker 1: of last year. Rangers bring him back is our opening
Speaker 1: day starter obviously as that prospect pedigree from a long
Speaker 1: ago with the Bravos mhmm. Interested in Mike Minor, actually
Speaker 1: recommended him as a stream on my Patreon. So if
Speaker 1: you were if you were there and you play in
Speaker 1: a daily transactionently you were able to pull that off
Speaker 1: and you're you're feeling pretty good, but no, it wasn't awesome.
Speaker 1: Start here for for Mike Minor, the underlying numbers Greg
Speaker 1: say that he's been pretty pretty lucky. He's got two
Speaker 1: point six zero e A his his exfit it's four
Speaker 1: point six eight, which is interesting. Um, the batted really
Speaker 1: low at to eleven he doesn't. He's not getting a
Speaker 1: ton of strikeouts, just a seven K per nine. But
Speaker 1: I think more strikeouts are gonna come from because if
Speaker 1: you look at the swinging strike rate, he's eleven and
Speaker 1: a half percent. It's a bubbly gaverage. It's it's up
Speaker 1: from last year. Last season he was you know, nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent. His first pitch strike percentage is up
Speaker 1: as well, so he's getting more swings and mrs. Yet
Speaker 1: his kper nine this year is down from where it
Speaker 1: was was that last year. That doesn't necessarily add up
Speaker 1: for me. So I think more strikeouts are coming for
Speaker 1: Mike Minor. I saw on rootal World that a few
Speaker 1: teams are interested in picking up Mike Minor, the Mets
Speaker 1: and the Phillies. So if that were to happen, he
Speaker 1: could end up in a you know, I think city
Speaker 1: Field would be a better location to pitch than pitching
Speaker 1: in Texas. Obviously Texas is a great hitter's ballpark. I
Speaker 1: have some interest, you know, my bench picture, end of
Speaker 1: my rotation. I just I don't think that he's a
Speaker 1: it must add by any means. He's doing some nice
Speaker 1: things to start the year, and I think in the
Speaker 1: right matchup like last night against the Angels. I like
Speaker 1: that matchup. That's fine, he's a matchup play. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a must add though, Okay, fair enough, Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: it's hard not to like what he did, you know yesterday,
Speaker 1: complete game shutout seven k's I mean, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm with Frankie, Like I wouldn't say, oh, we gotta
Speaker 1: pick him up now, I mean I would like to
Speaker 1: see still a little more because we've see you know,
Speaker 1: Minor has been around for a long time, uh and
Speaker 1: gets injured a lot and doesn't produce on a on
Speaker 1: a consistent level a lot, so it takes a lot
Speaker 1: more for hit for us to buy back into him.
Speaker 1: Right as a fantasy community Fastball Velocity is up for
Speaker 1: him this season, so that is worth mentioning. And he's
Speaker 1: using his change up more so, you know, the vl
Speaker 1: O being up and the fact that he's changed his
Speaker 1: his pitch usage a little bit. It has my attention, Like,
Speaker 1: he's definitely a guy that I would pay attention to
Speaker 1: and again matchup plays Greg, But I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a must add. Where are you ad on on Mike Miner?
Speaker 1: Like are you dropping Nick Pavetta right now. For Mike Miner,
Speaker 1: probably he is. I picked my own brand here. I
Speaker 1: picked my Miner up in the pit league, and I
Speaker 1: was willing to drop Nick Pavetta for him, and again
Speaker 1: I had the empty roster spot, so I didn't. All right,
Speaker 1: so you would do it, basically, That's that's what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, but I understand streaming him in the right match,
Speaker 1: staying on brand. Last night was the right match for
Speaker 1: the Rangers. As Drew Cabrera, he's the only two. He's
Speaker 1: got six home runs now on the year, six home runs.
Speaker 1: The o VP is awful at two eighty three, but
Speaker 1: six some runs you can't really ignore from a middle infielder. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you mentioned look the two eighty three o b
Speaker 1: P compared to the two only two average. You know,
Speaker 1: if if he's batting two fifty, then his OVP is
Speaker 1: you know, right around three ten, three twenty. So it
Speaker 1: wouldn't look that bad if the batting average were to
Speaker 1: come up, and I think it will, like we have
Speaker 1: enough of a sample size from as Drubo Cabrera. He's
Speaker 1: a veteran player, but you know, I thought he was
Speaker 1: sneaky during the draft season because of his position eligibility,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play every single day in a good
Speaker 1: hitters environment. Look, you know there's there's a jet stream
Speaker 1: out in right center field for for Texas Rangers hitters.
Speaker 1: And you know a dr Cabrera is a switch hitter,
Speaker 1: but most of the time he's gonna be batting lefty
Speaker 1: because he's going against right handed pitching. And you know
Speaker 1: there's a wind tunnel that you know, the ball just
Speaker 1: travels out to right field and right center field for
Speaker 1: for Texas Rangers hitters. He's in a good spot, man,
Speaker 1: And given the position versatility, you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a free agent anywhere, Greg, But if you're drafted
Speaker 1: him late, you're obviously pleased with what you've gotten. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's far off from what we're
Speaker 1: gonna get the rest of the way. Like if as
Speaker 1: Drubal Cabrera hits twenty five runs this year, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me at all. Any Santana got started second base
Speaker 1: logan foresight at first base kind of like he predicted yesterday, Frank,
Speaker 1: they batted seven and eight in this lineup. Uh, Danny
Speaker 1: Santana went over four, Lugan Forsyth one for two with
Speaker 1: a walk. Elvis Entrepris moved up to the two spot.
Speaker 1: And you said it yesterday, Chris, that watch out for No.
Speaker 1: One Rossari, he's about to get hot. Uh. Mazzara was
Speaker 1: one for four yesterday. But I believe I had an
Speaker 1: r V I double. Yeah, that was r B I double.
Speaker 1: Uh in the first Joey Gallow has gotten a bit
Speaker 1: hot as well. As Gallow hit his sixth home run
Speaker 1: of the season. I know our guy Drew dig Meyer
Speaker 1: left like to believe Joe about Joey Gallow today from
Speaker 1: TFS as well. So Joey Gallo at three three off
Speaker 1: the way, nice star. If you can keep that average
Speaker 1: where around where it is at five love Joey Gallow
Speaker 1: and and and that's what I was saying regarding him
Speaker 1: throughout draft season. Now his his batting average could fluctuate
Speaker 1: very quickly because he strikes out so much. What I
Speaker 1: said about him was, if he can get two thirty
Speaker 1: to forty just in that range, yep, he's he's a
Speaker 1: top fifty hitter and right not fifty place right now,
Speaker 1: it's a you can stay around two forty like that
Speaker 1: you know, that's what sinks you from a roto perspective. Normally,
Speaker 1: you you can't take on too many guys who are
Speaker 1: gonna hit below to fifty, let alone guy who's gonna
Speaker 1: hit around two hundred. You can't take that on in
Speaker 1: a road a league because it just tanks your batting average.
Speaker 1: He's gotta have crazy power and so much. But again,
Speaker 1: if he's hitting to forty and hits forty home runs,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a huge step we're talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: forty points batting average, a huge step, and you know
Speaker 1: it'll mean to hire o BP and you know, just
Speaker 1: higher overall stats for him. He's even better in point seas,
Speaker 1: averaging five point won't fantasy points in points leagues right now,
Speaker 1: that's top elite level, your points leagues where there's no strikes,
Speaker 1: there's no right. It's the case. It's extremely important to remember. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I can remember that. I'm sorry. In a strike out league,
Speaker 1: I guess you're probably missing a whole point there. You know,
Speaker 1: he's probably around four I would say three point eight.
Speaker 1: But um still listen, I was wrong about the guy.
Speaker 1: I think that this guy I thought he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be anything and was just literally gonna fold away. But
Speaker 1: you know, if he could keep that up, it's anomaly.
Speaker 1: It's rare and baseball to see a guy that could
Speaker 1: hit for such low average but consistently hit home runs
Speaker 1: and produce that's pretty crazy. So you know, I'll give
Speaker 1: kudos shout out to my boy Joey Gallo over there.
Speaker 1: Since we're talking, he's this generations Adam done. That's what
Speaker 1: it comes. Absolutely. Since we're since we're talking about guys
Speaker 1: that pitchers that let you down last night and didn't
Speaker 1: let you down. You called Glass, you called Nick Pavetta before,
Speaker 1: potentially this year's John Gray, right, the fifth guy, Joe
Speaker 1: Gray was awesome last night. Seven things of three, hit ball,
Speaker 1: one run, walk three, struck at five. It was a
Speaker 1: person that he was facing that wasn't so good. Do
Speaker 1: you know who that is, Frank, Yes, I do. It
Speaker 1: was it was Nick market Vicious. Oh man, are you
Speaker 1: dropping Nick Vicious here? Greg? Nick Vicious seven hits, five runs,
Speaker 1: four innings, only walked one, sugout seven. Yeah, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: The walking k ratio seven feel pretty good for Nick Vicious.
Speaker 1: Why don't you drop Nick Pavetta for him? But right,
Speaker 1: now dropped Nick Pavetta for Nick Margaret Vicius, One Nick
Speaker 1: for another, one Nick lead to another like that John
Speaker 1: Grey's performance and nick us John Gray. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a solid performance here he had a thirteen swinging
Speaker 1: strikes on eighty nine pitches. And look it's back to
Speaker 1: back performances now against the Giants and the Padres, both
Speaker 1: on the road, where he's performed very well. He's gott
Speaker 1: a near sixty percent groundball rate. We always knew that
Speaker 1: John Gray can put it together. And you know, thus
Speaker 1: far through four starts is the r A is two
Speaker 1: point four two, and his x fit is is here
Speaker 1: as three point four two, and his expit is three
Speaker 1: point six three. So he's right on part We've always wondered,
Speaker 1: you know, can the ARRA be around where the xfit is?
Speaker 1: And to start the year it has been. But three
Speaker 1: of his starts have been in Marlins Park in San
Speaker 1: Francisco and in San Diego. Greg I am not a
Speaker 1: John Gray guy, admittedly to me, even more so than
Speaker 1: a guy like Tyler Glass. Now this streams, this screams
Speaker 1: sell high. I'm probably selling them to Chris Ntra. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm higher on Gray than I am Glass now, um,
Speaker 1: before the season and now yeah, I'm still I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a great guys. Just love Colorado guys. Man, No,
Speaker 1: I like Gray and Marquez, and you gotta like Freeland
Speaker 1: and I kind of like Freeland. I do well this
Speaker 1: year's Colorado Rockies. Yeah, I never liked Rockies pictures in
Speaker 1: the past. Though he's a rescue for disaster buddy. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying have all three of them on your
Speaker 1: fantasy team. That's probably a disaster. But um, John Gray,
Speaker 1: I do like I've always like John Gray. I like
Speaker 1: guys at k people, you know what I mean. Uh,
Speaker 1: And the guy throws, you know, for the most part,
Speaker 1: like a guy like that, pantalizing metrics like that, you
Speaker 1: want him on your team now, I know, yes, sell
Speaker 1: high because he could be a radic. He could get
Speaker 1: Sheldy's in Colorado at home. It's a bad start always, uh,
Speaker 1: and you know, the walks might be an issue, But
Speaker 1: I think he's growing. I think he's been in league
Speaker 1: long enough to make a turn for the better. So
Speaker 1: I would be quicker to sell on Glass now being
Speaker 1: a more unproven player than Gray, and you know, hold Grey.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I want I want to see what kind
Speaker 1: of trades are going on regarding revolving around John Gray.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's see this. I'm gonna look this up
Speaker 1: on on yeahoo, let's see we got here John Gray
Speaker 1: and mcgull Cabrera for Julio Tehran and Raffie Devers. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it doesn't really help anyone. John Gray for Byron Buckston.
Speaker 1: Look at that like the bucks inside. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: I would rather have the Oh God, greg Don Gray
Speaker 1: for Juan so Tho, who's the clown? Who's the mouse
Speaker 1: in the house? Who pulled this one off? Who did that?
Speaker 1: I was looking at Yahoo trades. These are just trades
Speaker 1: that are going down in Yahoo right now. Oh God
Speaker 1: for Colorado last night and Clint Fraser for John Lester
Speaker 1: from the hitter, from the hitter side of things, No, Narado,
Speaker 1: homer's for the third day in a row. When I
Speaker 1: gotta when a power hitter like him gets hot, he
Speaker 1: just keeps rolling. Three three days, three home runs now
Speaker 1: for Nolan Aronado, a two run shot in the first
Speaker 1: Garrett has Hampson baby hits his first career home run,
Speaker 1: also stole his first base of the year, and it
Speaker 1: was clear a game plan against Nick Vishus and Francisco
Speaker 1: Mahill last night, They're gonna run wild. Trevor Story stole
Speaker 1: three bases on the night. Garrett Hampson stole his first
Speaker 1: base of the season. Mark Reynolds even stole a base. Clearly,
Speaker 1: they were gonna just try to run all night. They
Speaker 1: were successful. So um, great news obviously, the own Trevor story.
Speaker 1: And hey, Garrett Hampson batting that two hole. He's got
Speaker 1: a hit in order to stay in the line up.
Speaker 1: When Ryan McMann comes back, and when David Donald comes back,
Speaker 1: I'll expected to return to tomorrow potentially potentially tomorrow and
Speaker 1: likely the weekend. He'll be back before next week. So
Speaker 1: with all that being said, Hampson had hit in order
Speaker 1: to stay in the lineup. He's gotten a little bit
Speaker 1: hot as a late a modest hitting streak. Now for
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson, has he done enough, We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean he plays the outfield now too, So that's
Speaker 1: guy he can and this is how they used him
Speaker 1: in the spring. They used him in the middle infield.
Speaker 1: You can play second, you can play short, you can
Speaker 1: use him in the outfield. So you know he can
Speaker 1: do whatever is asked of you, and he's now he's
Speaker 1: he started six eight, nine games in a row. He started,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah he's got, he's got seven game, he's got,
Speaker 1: he's had. He had multiple hits yesterday, he had three
Speaker 1: runs scored, He at a home run, he had a
Speaker 1: stolen base. I think that was a breakout game for
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson last night. And again this is before they
Speaker 1: even get back to Corsfield. Just five games right in Colorado.
Speaker 1: This far he's doing too. They're about to have four
Speaker 1: games against the Phillies. Bombs too. He didn't get told
Speaker 1: Erid is not horrible and he won't see he's horrible.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's Garrett Hampson. If you guys had to guess,
Speaker 1: what is uh his sprint speed? What percentile the league
Speaker 1: doesn't ranking right now to start the season. Where do
Speaker 1: you think garretentile, Terence Gorange, His kid is fast man
Speaker 1: and he get hit homes, sneaky home apout, not even
Speaker 1: in coors Field. Yet everyone's been asking is he must
Speaker 1: add Greg? What do you say right now? And Yahoo?
Speaker 1: So wait, we're owners of him, so it's different, right,
Speaker 1: We're not. We're guys who were worrying about dropping him recently.
Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about dropping him possibly this week,
Speaker 1: saying let's see how he does this, because I might
Speaker 1: drop him. You're Rocky's fan, right, I don't think that
Speaker 1: Garrett Hampson's they must own And maybe that's too patient
Speaker 1: of me. Yeah, that he's not a must I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a must done you. I think in Rhodo
Speaker 1: and categories leagues, I'm interested, man. I think in those
Speaker 1: formats he's a must owned because for the same reason
Speaker 1: why people were drafting him. It's you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of similar to put that obviously not the same because
Speaker 1: Pavetta hasn't done anything and he just got sent down.
Speaker 1: But you drafted these guys for their skills, their underlying skills, right,
Speaker 1: you think they can be moving forward? Right? So you know,
Speaker 1: people didn't cut beat with Garrett Hampsen and are we
Speaker 1: gonna sit here right now and after he has his
Speaker 1: breakout performance and say that he doesn't he's not a
Speaker 1: mustown player and they're about to have four games in
Speaker 1: course field against the Phillies. So I think the conversation.
Speaker 1: But I think what you're saying is very different, right,
Speaker 1: Like what you just says we drafted him hoping the
Speaker 1: underlying numbers would come, and that's why Chris and I
Speaker 1: held out. They're starting to come. Yeah, definitely, and that's
Speaker 1: why Chris and I held onto him. Wouldn't you want
Speaker 1: to pick him up before he really really starts. I
Speaker 1: think it's going in course field. I think events who
Speaker 1: you're dropping it for him? Like, I'm still concerned about
Speaker 1: playing time. I know he's played nine straight games in
Speaker 1: a row, but the big Man and Dollar coming back,
Speaker 1: I don't know how that changes. If he's performing like this,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take him out of the lineup. You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right, Okay. You know we talked about Scott Kingdom
Speaker 1: early on. It's kind of a similar situation very much.
Speaker 1: But it's even better because in course field, so and
Speaker 1: I think the upside is better for a guy like
Speaker 1: Hampson versus Kingary. They're not completely dissimilar players, they're not.
Speaker 1: But Garrett Hampson I think has a little bit. He
Speaker 1: has speed here. There's no doubt about its Listen here,
Speaker 1: I mean, here's a possibility right that mcmahn and Dollar
Speaker 1: come back, it is Ian Desmond that loses his playing time.
Speaker 1: I was thinking that too, unless they're just playing him
Speaker 1: because of the contract. But if they want to field
Speaker 1: their best team and Garrett Hampson's performed, well, why why
Speaker 1: wouldn't they start him over Ian Desmon. They might, they might,
Speaker 1: and they might platoon them kind of with Campson on
Speaker 1: the better side of the platoon, meaning he'll actually play more.
Speaker 1: I mean, like they'll they'll probably play left field, and
Speaker 1: like both of them center field. Well maybe they play
Speaker 1: centerfield center field because he had dolls in life, all right,
Speaker 1: So then you got they'll they'll split it. But like
Speaker 1: I think that Hampson will get more because he's earning
Speaker 1: it now, and if he stays like this, he might
Speaker 1: take over completely. Well, I think what you said is
Speaker 1: probably true, Frank, And that is that was the name
Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned, as Daniel Murphy who coming back to
Speaker 1: at some point. That's another name in this cons agreed.
Speaker 1: What all these names are coming back? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think it must when we come back. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go through a few middle infielders and figure out
Speaker 1: whether or not we would drop these guys. Okay, we'll
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Speaker 1: hanging out. Frank, you little of these middle infields you
Speaker 1: want to do over? Yeah, I'm taking a few questions
Speaker 1: in the chat to a lot of people have questions
Speaker 1: about Garrett Hampson right now? Would you drop Alex Verdugo
Speaker 1: for Garrett Hampson? What do you Blinger, by the way,
Speaker 1: returned to the line up today for the Dodgers. Also
Speaker 1: in the Dodgers lineup Alex Verdugo today, so they're in
Speaker 1: the lineup together, Greig, would you drop your Verdugo who
Speaker 1: you've been stashing for Garrett Hampson? They played the positions,
Speaker 1: so just in a vacuum. So taking a look at
Speaker 1: this lineup, I do want to know once again, no
Speaker 1: Justin Turner in here, who has battling ankle and hamstring soreness.
Speaker 1: So once all the other day he kind of came
Speaker 1: up Wayne running through first base, so he said that
Speaker 1: he hoped to be back in the line up today.
Speaker 1: He's not a day of Turner. He's always kind of
Speaker 1: No Corey Seeger in this line of either Corey see
Speaker 1: her out of the day all this, Chris Taylor gets
Speaker 1: his day game after the night game. So Beldier is
Speaker 1: not playing either, said is in the lineup playing playing first?
Speaker 1: What I do when I drop him? What I dropped
Speaker 1: Verdugo for Garrett Hampson probably not, probably not in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: For me, I think Garrett Hampson has more upside just
Speaker 1: because of the speed. No Verdugo is never gonna give
Speaker 1: you that right, but he could be great. Would you
Speaker 1: rather have because I know you like Verdugo to I do.
Speaker 1: I like him both a lot um. I think right
Speaker 1: now because of Hampson kind has leaving or not some
Speaker 1: sort of security in this lineup right now because of
Speaker 1: all the injuries, also batting second every day. I think
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Hampson right now. Plus he's also gaining
Speaker 1: that outfield eligibility which he already has in Yahoo and
Speaker 1: I think ESPN and he'll have soon. Uh, so he
Speaker 1: has more eligibility and he has the outfield. I think
Speaker 1: I'd hold I'd rather have Hampson right now, but I
Speaker 1: would like to have both essentially agree. I agree with
Speaker 1: you know. So we got two to one for for
Speaker 1: Hampson over Verdugo, but try and own both of them.
Speaker 1: A few other questions we've got Greg was, how about
Speaker 1: Brandon lou Brandon Loud versus Garrett Hampson earlyer Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: I think he does a little bit of both. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't hate Ran Allowed, I know that have Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: Me personally, i'd rather have Brandon Loo just I think
Speaker 1: the playing time is a little bit more concrete. And
Speaker 1: he's been awesome. Man. I really like what he showed
Speaker 1: me in the minors last season. Um and the Rays
Speaker 1: like him a lot too. He had a huge spring
Speaker 1: training in the game of contract extension. He's not everything
Speaker 1: he's that's been asked him. He's hitting two eighties, six
Speaker 1: or Homer's ten ribbies, two stolen basis Brandon Low. So
Speaker 1: for me it's him, also beats in a great part
Speaker 1: of the lineup. Would you rather have Lour Garrett Hampson,
Speaker 1: It has to be Hampson. I mean I drafted Hampson
Speaker 1: Allows actually in the free agent pool in my home league. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it looks like I'm the loan soldier they're going
Speaker 1: in with, going with Brandon Low constant team greg Our
Speaker 1: buddy asks drop a fran Mill Rays, get Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: I would, yes, I would, Yes, I would not, but
Speaker 1: I'm a big friend, will raise guy. We're really on
Speaker 1: opposite site. We're on opposite I like, I like Hampson
Speaker 1: and I get it. They both can have their playing
Speaker 1: time concerns, but I just think fran Will Raises upside
Speaker 1: is massive. Heat also doesn't have Well, he's been playing
Speaker 1: every day recently, but like it's not guaranteed that he'll
Speaker 1: be in the lineup all the time with that crowded outfield,
Speaker 1: but they've been creative to get Franmo Rays in there,
Speaker 1: and he's been batting second to and again he's you know,
Speaker 1: one of the league leaders in terms of where his
Speaker 1: averages and what he's expected batting averages expected batting averages
Speaker 1: over three hundred. It's making really good contact too, and
Speaker 1: I think once that starts to come, once the hits
Speaker 1: actually start to come, I think he's gonna play more
Speaker 1: often than not. Right now, he's been four so you know,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, he's a power hitter. Uh
Speaker 1: and if he does go closer to three hundred, that
Speaker 1: is great, But right now I would go Hampson as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, this is a little bit too cute in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Someone's asking Garrett Hampson or Paul Deyong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's ah, that's an easy one for me.
Speaker 1: A couple other ones that I asked you about during
Speaker 1: the brake, Raig, was it Parazza? It's even terrible? Was it?
Speaker 1: Paraza is hitting one homer, one stolen base, mostly been
Speaker 1: towards the bottom of the lineup for the Reds. What
Speaker 1: are you doing with the Jose Parraza? Would you drop
Speaker 1: him for Garrett Hampson? Where you're just holding on in general,
Speaker 1: you have to hold on for right now, I think,
Speaker 1: coming from the guy who wants to drop everyone, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna drop Jose Prazza. I would you would, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm with you, Greg, I'm not dropped. I
Speaker 1: would drop Parrazza for Hampson. I'm not dropping Parazzi yet.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially when you drafted him to you probably
Speaker 1: spend a gre No, not that that matters a ton
Speaker 1: at this point, but you probably used like a seventh
Speaker 1: eighth round pick in what in my Great Fast fifteen team?
Speaker 1: He in the fifth round, the fifth round, people were
Speaker 1: excited about parz I don't think that you could just
Speaker 1: give up on it. He has owned a lot to
Speaker 1: in ESPN SEV, but he didn't even get drafted. Greg
Speaker 1: Colton Wong is kind of cooled down. You're dropping Colton
Speaker 1: Wong to get Garrett Hampson. I don't what has Wong
Speaker 1: done recently? Uh? Moveed off? He's he's cooled off quite
Speaker 1: a bit, cooled off quite Oh my god, he's been terrible.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Frank, why do we still own him? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what a home at four homers and he
Speaker 1: has seventeen twenty three, he's two ers, that's twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's awful. All right, Look if we can find someone
Speaker 1: to drop him four sure he was Garcia's Garrett Hampson
Speaker 1: one of those players. Yes, you're dropping Colton Wong for Garrett.
Speaker 1: He played second. Yeah, I think it will. That's that's
Speaker 1: a middle infield spot. I agree with you guys that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't make that. I would make that. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have picked up Colton Wong. And I told you this
Speaker 1: when we were talking about him when he was hot.
Speaker 1: Come on, I said it wasn't gonna last, and it didn't.
Speaker 1: And I got a question for you because this is
Speaker 1: someone that you like as well. Eddel Marte Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: Kendel Martin has been great. Yeah, well the betting advert
Speaker 1: has been great. He's two thirty nine, but four homers
Speaker 1: thirteen Ribbies, two stolen basic bags overall, I mean, nine
Speaker 1: run squad. How do stats look nice for a triple?
Speaker 1: He's got a couple of doubles. I can't do that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would Mate is a safer, safer play right now, guys,
Speaker 1: let me Ryan Dozer get rid of him. Doje Garrett Hampson.
Speaker 1: Let me move on from Garrett Hampson. Guys. There's a
Speaker 1: lot more I want to get to over the next
Speaker 1: half hour, including what Shane Bieber did last night. Six
Speaker 1: and things of four hit ball, one run, he did,
Speaker 1: walk three, he struck out a five tough Mariners line up,
Speaker 1: and the Indians come away with a victory. They look
Speaker 1: now Tenant seven get a little hot all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor get home run in his first rehab games
Speaker 1: last night. Things coming back around, and Shaby were doing
Speaker 1: his job. Yeah, Greg, A lot of people early on
Speaker 1: in the season we talked about this a lot doing
Speaker 1: victory lapse regarding the Minnesota Twins versus the Indians, and
Speaker 1: I love the Twins this season, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but I still didn't have them winning the division. I
Speaker 1: still thought the Indians were gonna be really good on
Speaker 1: the back of their starting pitching. And I know they
Speaker 1: lost Clevinger, but you know, here we go there ten
Speaker 1: and seven, and that's before they get Lindoor back. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, their line was kind of getting healthy now,
Speaker 1: so you know they're only gonna get better and they're
Speaker 1: ten and seven. So for all those people were like,
Speaker 1: oh the Cleveland Indians, they sucked to start the year.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, where are you now? It doesn't look too good.
Speaker 1: But Shane Bieber I actually watched a lot of this
Speaker 1: start Greg He really wiggled out of some trouble a
Speaker 1: lot here, and it was more mainly because of the walks,
Speaker 1: which it was interesting to me because you know, there's
Speaker 1: a guy that normally has really good command, but you know,
Speaker 1: the first pitch strikes were necessarily there. Yesterday, Um, you
Speaker 1: threw a hundred and six pitches, only sixty four strikes,
Speaker 1: so forty two balls. That's not a great ratio. So
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was lights out, but he still
Speaker 1: fought through it. I can say very good mariners lineup
Speaker 1: last night. The swinging strikes for Solid he had he
Speaker 1: had twelve out of a hundred and six, So again
Speaker 1: Solid didn't blow me away by any means, but still
Speaker 1: almost had a strike up for any he gave you
Speaker 1: what you wanted to. But me personally, I'm I'm always
Speaker 1: going to be critical of Shane Bieber because I hold
Speaker 1: him close to my heart and I always wanted to
Speaker 1: perform well, but I felt like he didn't have his
Speaker 1: A plus stuff last night. Was still able to will
Speaker 1: through this startrek. Yeah, I don't think you should be
Speaker 1: too critical just because of how poorly a lot of
Speaker 1: you know pictures. We hoped we're gonna be good this year.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Like he's still one of the
Speaker 1: best pitches in the league right now when in high regard.
Speaker 1: I mean, so there's not wrong with Bieber right now.
Speaker 1: I don't think, uh, you know, he's surpassing people that
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sales a big problem. He's done everything
Speaker 1: that that's been asked of him. He's done. He's done
Speaker 1: everything that's been asked of him. On the other side,
Speaker 1: Mike Leak six innings, eight hits, two runs, walk, nobody
Speaker 1: struck out four. I know everyone likes to hate him,
Speaker 1: my Leak. He sucks, definitely sucks, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people picked him up for two start weeks and they
Speaker 1: might have picked him up because he was facing the Indians.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, I think if you picked him up,
Speaker 1: you're you're thrilled with this. No walks. Uh. The whip
Speaker 1: wasn't bad either, eight hits and six innings. It's fine
Speaker 1: to earn runs, give you a quality start. I think
Speaker 1: if you picked him up and streamed him, you feel
Speaker 1: great about shame overall. I don't think he's good, but
Speaker 1: shame on you if you picked him up, because then
Speaker 1: if you if you're if you're the guy on the
Speaker 1: other side who had to face him, say, um, Mike
Speaker 1: Leak just pitched a gem versus kidding me. You're pissed
Speaker 1: right now. This is what you want you up season? Though?
Speaker 1: Is you want to in the right matchups. Now it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out. Looking at you, Spencer turnbull ding Dong,
Speaker 1: we needed you against the Indians. But I think early
Speaker 1: on in the season, you know, I've talked about three
Speaker 1: spots that I don't want to pitch guys Horsfield Milwaukee
Speaker 1: and in Citizens Bank in Philadelphia. So if you have
Speaker 1: to bench some of your back end rotation or middle
Speaker 1: rotation guys in those spots. You have to find pictures
Speaker 1: who have good matchups, and then you end up streaming
Speaker 1: guys that you don't necessarily want to but they have
Speaker 1: good matchups. I go and Mike Leak in your right.
Speaker 1: If that's how you end up with a guy like
Speaker 1: Mike Leak in your especially a two start in a
Speaker 1: weekly league, you know there's not a lot of people
Speaker 1: pitching two starts every week. So on the wave of
Speaker 1: you gotta fine, you can. But Mike Leak is just
Speaker 1: an innings eater, it's all he is. I don't really
Speaker 1: want to experience inting EA rarely rare sight. Carlos Antanna
Speaker 1: struck at three times in this one, but did have
Speaker 1: an r v I double uh to help fantasy owners there,
Speaker 1: Jason kit has returned. Stole a base. Sorry, Frank, you
Speaker 1: know you're upset about that, but just being fair towards
Speaker 1: Jason kitnas he's been very good since he's returned. He's
Speaker 1: I thought you like him miss he picked him up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't like to be stole a base for
Speaker 1: my team because you know I'm anti stolen basis. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a pit in the in the pit league,
Speaker 1: it's a head to end categories league where I I
Speaker 1: am actively punting. But normally, if you're playing a road
Speaker 1: a league, you want all the stolen bases you can get,
Speaker 1: So I'm just kind of kidding about that. But Kipness
Speaker 1: has been great. He has three hits in his first
Speaker 1: two games back. I get a run scored yesterday, stole
Speaker 1: a base too. There you go, right back in the
Speaker 1: middle of the lineup. Greig adding third for the for
Speaker 1: the Indians lineup. It's kind of been a merry go round,
Speaker 1: merry go round with the let's see who else is
Speaker 1: gonna beat third in the Indians line up next. But
Speaker 1: in the short term I have interest in Kidness, especially
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues. I think he might be available in
Speaker 1: some fifteen team leagues. All that great. Would you drop
Speaker 1: Colton Wong for Jason Kidness? Yes? In a deeper league, yes?
Speaker 1: And what do you think you hate? Killed him long? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not not. I like Kitness. I've had Kimness a
Speaker 1: lot over these He's gotta stay healthy. Yeah, It's it's
Speaker 1: always been thinking for Kidness because he's got some pop
Speaker 1: and he's got some speed. Obviously, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He could be like a fifty guy. Um if he
Speaker 1: plays a whole year. Uh but yeah, listen, this just
Speaker 1: shows how big the lineup is. Though you're throwing Kipness
Speaker 1: him right away to the three spot. They were hurting
Speaker 1: for some bats and Lindor in you have last night.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw this, but hit
Speaker 1: a bomb, absolute bomb, hit a moon rocket last night.
Speaker 1: It was it was going viral on Twitter. So he's
Speaker 1: getting can't wait because I need him badly, you know,
Speaker 1: I think May first. We probably get Lindor by May first,
Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit before that, and you know,
Speaker 1: once that happens, don't look now, the Indians, here's a
Speaker 1: good question for you. Who do I drop when Lindoor
Speaker 1: comes back? Kettle Mate, Tim Beckham, mc, Garrett Hampson and
Speaker 1: you all play a similar position. But Beckham is the
Speaker 1: only one that placed third. He's my starting third baseman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the rest of my offense is absolutely stacked. So
Speaker 1: how about you trade one one of these other guys
Speaker 1: for a third baseman? Yeah? I might trade like a
Speaker 1: Tommy fam My outfield school. I have to. He's the
Speaker 1: one I have, Bryce Happer, Tommy Fami, Eloy Jimenez Um
Speaker 1: it's a keeper league, keeper league, and I keep him
Speaker 1: in the twenty first round. Last Yeah, I got Byron
Speaker 1: Buckston and I got Daviddal. So I five outfields, I
Speaker 1: can only start three. I think returns well in course,
Speaker 1: field him out as soon as he comes back and
Speaker 1: he gets hot again. Man, we both him. I think
Speaker 1: fans value is so high right now because he's doing
Speaker 1: great right now. Points he's average. You know he's gonna
Speaker 1: do that all the year. He probably told you he
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. I drafted him because I know you
Speaker 1: sold me on Frank and he sold me on him.
Speaker 1: But like I want to sound because I know that
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get as much value out of Doll
Speaker 1: right now as I will Tommy Fam. I could get
Speaker 1: someone big right now, like a picture. I agree, but
Speaker 1: you have to you have time until Francisco Lindoor returns.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about it. What I'm saying, Yeah, David
Speaker 1: Doll should be back either tomorrow or over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and they have all these games coming up in Coors
Speaker 1: Field where I think he can get hot, and if
Speaker 1: that happens, I would rather treade him away than Tommy Fam. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Dodgers last night defeated the Red six to one.
Speaker 1: Can to my Ada six and two thirds, one run,
Speaker 1: walk three. She got a five allowed four hits could
Speaker 1: start from my Ada. Not so much with Tyler Molly
Speaker 1: six things, eleven hits, didn't walk anybody a four and
Speaker 1: runs three striker is not a great star by Molly.
Speaker 1: Tough offense um not a very good start. John Peterson
Speaker 1: homer again for the Dodgers. He's eighth of the year
Speaker 1: three a D O B P. Right now, for Jock Peterson,
Speaker 1: this is what he does. This is what he does,
Speaker 1: and well, he's got to be owned in daily lineup
Speaker 1: leagues where you know you could set your lineup every day.
Speaker 1: You know he's not gonna play against left handed pitching.
Speaker 1: But he's a three true malcome guy. And if you're
Speaker 1: playing O B P or if you're playing points leagues,
Speaker 1: I know normally you want volvolume in points leagues, but
Speaker 1: with Jock, I think he's gonna be He's gonna be
Speaker 1: so good when he's in the lineup that he almost
Speaker 1: kind of defies that you think for the points league
Speaker 1: because he walks a lot and either walking or hitting
Speaker 1: homers and that's really good for points leagues. I'm just
Speaker 1: worried about the slumps with him in points league where
Speaker 1: you're gonna gotta carry it in your lineup, and I
Speaker 1: don't want him in for a week where if he
Speaker 1: gets into a slump, he's giving you close to nothing.
Speaker 1: Maybe the walks that's about it, but most he's you know,
Speaker 1: you're last outfielder, maybe your utility pre You're not really
Speaker 1: relying on him for much. You getting draft him as
Speaker 1: one of your top outfielders, so it's kind of whatever
Speaker 1: he gives you was just a cherry on top because
Speaker 1: you probably just picked him up right. We mentioned for
Speaker 1: Dua before he went three or four last night with
Speaker 1: three RB I. He's back in the lineup today. As
Speaker 1: Frank and I mentioned, he's awesome. He's awesome. He's awesome.
Speaker 1: This guy play every day. Man, are we getting there? Greg?
Speaker 1: Are we like we getting to the point where you know,
Speaker 1: if they have six games, he plays four out of
Speaker 1: the week. I think I must say yes, but I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't definitively say yes. A lot of pieces here,
Speaker 1: it's hard parts, and you know the Dodgers, they like
Speaker 1: to do Dodger things where you know, they'll they'll give
Speaker 1: everyone a day off months. He looked a day off
Speaker 1: here and there, and Justin Turner now a little bit
Speaker 1: nicked up, and you know it's give Key here nan
Speaker 1: Is a day off here and there, and they play
Speaker 1: then when when he's hitting this well, you know, what
Speaker 1: did you think of the Reds line up last night?
Speaker 1: Joey Votto leaning off for the first time in years, uh,
Speaker 1: followed by a Nyo Suarez, Jesse Winker and then and
Speaker 1: then on down the rest of yesterday. Frank, I think
Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with what we mentioned
Speaker 1: when we were talking about Jesse Winker last week, and
Speaker 1: what the what the Reds broadcast told me and made
Speaker 1: me aware of, is that Jesse Winker in his career
Speaker 1: has done much better with runners on base than when
Speaker 1: he's leading off endings or leading off a game. So maybe, uh,
Speaker 1: someone tip David Bell off to that, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to put him in the best position to succeed. And
Speaker 1: you know, Joey Votto's o BP is gonna be amazing,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be over four hundred. But you know, I
Speaker 1: don't own any shares of Joey Votto. Greg and I
Speaker 1: think most people are at least slightly concerned about him
Speaker 1: to start the year. Yeah, because now we have you know,
Speaker 1: this is a two years in a row n thirty five. Ops,
Speaker 1: he's not hitting for power? Is this what he's reduced to?
Speaker 1: Just OVP leadoff hitter? I mean he's gotten older, yes,
Speaker 1: shares because to me he was he was a really
Speaker 1: hard guy to figure out. That's what we said at age.
Speaker 1: Chelling up to him rely could be. He's in his
Speaker 1: inti late thirties at this point, so I think the
Speaker 1: power is definitely down but for Attom, but the twelve
Speaker 1: homers right the power, and I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a permanent thing for the most part. I don't think
Speaker 1: you'll have a seat close to maybe twenty, but I
Speaker 1: think most that's what most people wanted out of him.
Speaker 1: They wanted a good batting average and close to home
Speaker 1: runs at least. I think you're gonna see more like
Speaker 1: twenty and then. But the batting average right now is
Speaker 1: too low. That's obviously gonna gonna correct itself. I'm actually
Speaker 1: trying to look for his babbit right now. Want to
Speaker 1: see what what we're looking like with balls and play
Speaker 1: right now, Greg for Jesse Winker. I just pulled this
Speaker 1: up real quick. In his career played appearances with runners
Speaker 1: in scoring position. He's sitting three thirty with Night with
Speaker 1: a N wants me in the middle of the order.
Speaker 1: So that's I think that's what they're looking at regarding
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker right here. And I think it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I can't knock it. If I'm a Joey Vado owner.
Speaker 1: I probably don't love this though, because it's Princess, you're RBI.
Speaker 1: It's good for your run scored, yeah, but it'll help
Speaker 1: his run scored. Think overall, man, I'm just kind of worried.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Oh, I thought it was the end
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Speaker 1: the program Ventra Standful, I'll hang out. I love when
Speaker 1: you see catchers give signs and I have to go
Speaker 1: through five of them because the picture hates him all.
Speaker 1: It's great. I love it, you don't think sometimes they
Speaker 1: just do that too, kind of mix up the hitter,
Speaker 1: keep them off balanced if they're take a long time,
Speaker 1: like I don't know what pitch is gonna come. Well,
Speaker 1: he saw you just saw it happen fast fall, not
Speaker 1: change up. Let me throw a yeah, a terrible pitch up.
Speaker 1: It was awful. It was awful, all right. You. I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about Christian Yella, so we're gonna do
Speaker 1: that next before we get into what Eloy did, because
Speaker 1: he's been ridiculous all season long as Christian yellings, and
Speaker 1: they continued last night with his ninth home run of
Speaker 1: the season, his eighth home run this season against the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals. It's all changed, to believe, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: all changed, man. He's just unfreaking believable. Has Monty Grandalla
Speaker 1: has also been unbelievable. He'd his fifth home run of
Speaker 1: this season, Grandella betting over four d. I know we
Speaker 1: had high expectations for him and he's a streaky player,
Speaker 1: but Frank, has Monty Grandalla is also a fantastic start
Speaker 1: this season. Yeah, and this is partially what we expected
Speaker 1: with the move to Milwaukee, hitting in Miller Park. He
Speaker 1: takes the one year deal, betting on himself and hopefully
Speaker 1: they can make something happen long term here because having
Speaker 1: another catcher be this good for fantasy purposes. It's just awesome.
Speaker 1: I would say, as of right now, and I don't
Speaker 1: think this is just an overreaction. I think he's the
Speaker 1: third best catcher in fantasy obviously, when Sanchez returns and
Speaker 1: real Muto has been great too, I think he's the
Speaker 1: third best catcher. He might have even elevated himself into
Speaker 1: the same category as those guys as being the top
Speaker 1: tier elite has money ground dollar has been awesome, betting
Speaker 1: over four hundred. He's got nine o p s, five homers.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, he's got ten RBIs already as a catcher.
Speaker 1: He's didn't man what this So I say he has
Speaker 1: ten RBIs. That sounds good, right? How many RBIs do
Speaker 1: you think Christian Yellows has one? Well, you know he
Speaker 1: has nine at least nine nine home runs. Nine home runs,
Speaker 1: so he's got way more than I think. Math is
Speaker 1: his strong suit. So eighteen twenty five Ribbies, he overtook
Speaker 1: Domingo Santana for the league lead last night, King, if
Speaker 1: you want to hear more about Christian Yells, listen to
Speaker 1: you yesterday though probably already did. Was like a whole second. Again,
Speaker 1: that was a whole segment, yell Travis Shaw finally got
Speaker 1: two hits he with two for four in the middle
Speaker 1: of the orders how to hit Frank, So that was helpful.
Speaker 1: But by the way, I rather have Grendel than than
Speaker 1: than Sanchez. By the way, I like Sanchez is starting
Speaker 1: to annoy the hell out of me. But he's a mess.
Speaker 1: He gets hurt all the time. He does dumb things,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like he gets picked off at second
Speaker 1: basis for fantasy because of his bad fundamentals. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get him, you know, out of the lineup. Sometimes he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to start d h and, which is good
Speaker 1: for him in the future, but as a fantasy player,
Speaker 1: But like, I feel like it's gonna hurt him in
Speaker 1: the interim. Like he's already here, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: He's already here. Rather Grundel, He's more than He's more consistent,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's on the field, He's there.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't knock you for it. I mean me, personally,
Speaker 1: I would still take Sanchez over him. The upside is crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably close. It's probably close. I can't knock you
Speaker 1: for it. Carand me personally, I would take Sanchez owns
Speaker 1: are Grindel grande for me? Wow. For me, I'm with
Speaker 1: you on the other side. Start with Jack Flaherty, who
Speaker 1: were just talking about during the break, was disaster for
Speaker 1: us and his loud nine hits, five runs, walked, one,
Speaker 1: struck out four and two and two thirds his worst
Speaker 1: start of the season. Yeah, his two worst starts of
Speaker 1: the season have coming against Milwaukee, and he had two
Speaker 1: other starts where he was quite fine. Greg. So again,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm talking about. When it comes to
Speaker 1: streaming pitchers. You don't you're not streaming them against Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: But for most people, Jack Flaherty is one of their
Speaker 1: top three starting pitchers. So you just figure I could
Speaker 1: leave him in the lineup most of the time. And
Speaker 1: I think most of the time you're right. But against Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: I hope this is the last time he sees them
Speaker 1: this year, and maybe we'll get one other time against Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: But two starts against the Brewers, Greg, he's been terrible,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know the other two starts he's been fined,
Speaker 1: and one of those starts was against the Dodgers too.
Speaker 1: I will say this in the ending where it all
Speaker 1: kind of blew up for him, I believe it was
Speaker 1: the third ending, Yes, it was Um, he could have
Speaker 1: been out of the ending. He hit a Ryan Braun
Speaker 1: hit a ground ball to Matt Carpentry third base, which
Speaker 1: he's just completely like fumbled over. It might have hit
Speaker 1: the bag, but that kept the ending going. And then
Speaker 1: what happens. He has Monty Grandal hits the two run homer,
Speaker 1: Travis Shaw hits a single, He's a tacular hits a single,
Speaker 1: Orlando Arcia walks, and in Brandon Woodruff it's a basis clearing,
Speaker 1: uh not basic clear, two run double down the line
Speaker 1: the picture against Jack Flaherty, So he could have got
Speaker 1: out of the ending, and who knows how what what
Speaker 1: would have happened in the start overall, But thanks Matt
Speaker 1: Carpentter for you need as much help as you can get. Man,
Speaker 1: when you're going against the Brewers, you can't make mistakes
Speaker 1: like that. You can't give them extra outs because almost
Speaker 1: every time it's gonna come back to to blow up
Speaker 1: in your face. Yeah, I'm just a little worried about Flaherty.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't I have I think I have
Speaker 1: maybe one place, maybe not at all, but um, I
Speaker 1: just think that like you paid a lot for him,
Speaker 1: and you're expecting like a really big breakout yea here,
Speaker 1: and it's a little worrisome to se him get shelled
Speaker 1: that bad, you know, just given you zero, it's been
Speaker 1: two bad starts against the Brewers. The other thing when
Speaker 1: he he performed all against the Daughters. Dodgers are really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but I'm saying two out of four still
Speaker 1: in general, you know what I mean, Maybe just don't
Speaker 1: play Milwaukee. He's probably gonna have two, maybe two more
Speaker 1: starts against the play him ninteen times at least played
Speaker 1: him six already or or whatever. Right, Greg, what else
Speaker 1: is new? Michael Franco up with the bases loaded. All
Speaker 1: this guy does come up with men on basse joke
Speaker 1: as Zach Wheeler obviously walked losing a Battle of season Hernandez,
Speaker 1: which is yeah, which you know doesn't surprise anyone. This
Speaker 1: was my concern with Wheeler. Today's everyone in the Phillies
Speaker 1: takes bitches and they walk a lot. And in the
Speaker 1: Wheeler in the battle yesterday against the Lopez of Lopez v.
Speaker 1: Lopez right now, the Lopez goes six in days of
Speaker 1: one on ball he struck out five. He walked to
Speaker 1: your boy, Lopez strug out ten on his name is
Speaker 1: not Javier Lord. Keep trying your your Jay names. Lope
Speaker 1: is a former reliever on the Giants. You're right, okay,
Speaker 1: y Lopez. Ten strike ats, two walks. He allowed of
Speaker 1: four runs on eight hits, but those ten strikeats obviously
Speaker 1: very very nice. Yonder Lanzis goes four for four with
Speaker 1: his third home run of the season, which is awesome,
Speaker 1: your boy, you want him. Moncada goes deep not once,
Speaker 1: but twice, while Tim Anderson, your other guys, that was
Speaker 1: six basically here Chris, Timmy um Mankada, two guys I
Speaker 1: love on the White Sex, is why I kind of
Speaker 1: like like the like White Sox a little bit. These
Speaker 1: guys h and they're doing what I what I hope
Speaker 1: they do, so I just hope they keep it up.
Speaker 1: Tim and this is obviously hitting for way too high
Speaker 1: average right now to keep that up. But I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a top ten shortstop in Fantasy. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna keep up a good pace the whole year.
Speaker 1: Not this hot though, obviously power and setting over with
Speaker 1: ops over a thousand. I remember the conversation we had
Speaker 1: regarding Tim Anderson. You kind of talked me into him
Speaker 1: and then I moved him up in my rankings. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of people bullish on him heading into
Speaker 1: draft season. He went last year. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: just getting better every single year. That is Tim Anderson,
Speaker 1: and he's great defensively. Yes, and I was watching the
Speaker 1: both of these pictures in this game because I had
Speaker 1: a few shares of Jorge Lopez. I think I think
Speaker 1: he's got some talent. Man. He's got a lot of
Speaker 1: movement on his pitches. He's got a big twelve to
Speaker 1: six curveball that he throws. He struggled with the home
Speaker 1: runs last night. He gave up two to Yoan Macat
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that um And obviously Yonder Alonzo
Speaker 1: performed well against him, but he still had ten strikeouts.
Speaker 1: The swinging strikes were there. He throws a power slider too,
Speaker 1: the fastball three, but he has a big hook. I'm
Speaker 1: intrigued by Jorge Lopez man. He has a lot of
Speaker 1: movement on his pitches, and I think he has some
Speaker 1: strike out upside that we saw in the start. Here
Speaker 1: on the other side, Ronaldo Lopez desperately needed to start.
Speaker 1: I mean, even going six innings one run ball, his
Speaker 1: ear a still sits at eight point eight four, so
Speaker 1: he's just been a disaster to start the season. He
Speaker 1: throws really hard, but it doesn't get a lot of swings,
Speaker 1: and mrs usually a little bit predictable and struggles with
Speaker 1: command of time too. So I don't have any shares
Speaker 1: of Ronaldo Lopez. I had him last year, uh and
Speaker 1: he and he kind of burnt me. Uh. There's always
Speaker 1: a chance he gets better because he's still young, but
Speaker 1: he just hasn't showed me enough. Now, big big combo here,
Speaker 1: wait before you do it, I gotta give it up.
Speaker 1: That to Mandason went over four and still I think
Speaker 1: he was betting over five right now, Keep him while
Speaker 1: he's hot, sell high. Maybe because he ain't doing this
Speaker 1: good the whole season. Say that my own guys, you're
Speaker 1: one moncada. It all comes down to this. You know
Speaker 1: what's funny, I only have him in one place. This
Speaker 1: is like s everybody was so hot, like I feel
Speaker 1: an off pit league blew. It was on top of
Speaker 1: him early draft, remember that, real early after. I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting these things, so I kind of got blindsided with that.
Speaker 1: I wanted him everywhere to adding three thirty three ops
Speaker 1: over a thousand to home runs last night, his fourth
Speaker 1: and his fifth. He's betting second, just ahead of Jose Bray,
Speaker 1: you and Yonda Alonso. And to me, the biggest takeaway
Speaker 1: regarding you on Kada is the strikeouts. And this is
Speaker 1: exactly what I said about him coming into the year.
Speaker 1: If he can cut down on the strikeouts, and I
Speaker 1: was modest, I said, Look, if he can cut down
Speaker 1: four or five on the strikeout right, if he can
Speaker 1: lower the strikeout right from thirty three percent last year too,
Speaker 1: if he's then he'll be able to hit to fifty
Speaker 1: home runs. That's what I said about him. But now
Speaker 1: he's lowered the cave rate, small sample, only sixteen games.
Speaker 1: He's got seventy plate appearances. Strikeout right, he's down almost
Speaker 1: from last year, and the results are there. Look, he
Speaker 1: always hits the ball hard. He hits the ball in
Speaker 1: the air. You look at him, he's like a dude tank.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to describe him. He's got power
Speaker 1: forcent hard hit right to start the year. I think
Speaker 1: he's legit. I think he's legit. You know, I was
Speaker 1: one year early on new Alan Coat and it sucks
Speaker 1: because I had a few shares last year and he
Speaker 1: let me down big time. But he's already got five
Speaker 1: home runs. He hit seventeen all of last year, so
Speaker 1: you know, And and the fan graph projections have him
Speaker 1: at a two forty average and runs the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. That means he's gonnahity hommers. That's what they're
Speaker 1: expecting for him to give you twenty plus homers. I
Speaker 1: think the batting average might even be able to be
Speaker 1: a little bit better. If he can maintain a strikeout
Speaker 1: like this, you might be able to hit you know,
Speaker 1: to two sixties something like that and that range. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're on board. Baby. He's doing the exactly
Speaker 1: what you needed to see from him, you know, lowering
Speaker 1: the strikeout rate. He's not walking as much this year.
Speaker 1: He's being a little bit more aggressive in terms of swinging,
Speaker 1: but he's making more contact. So if he was being
Speaker 1: more aggressive, walking less but also striking out the same
Speaker 1: amount more, I'd be really worried. But he was walking
Speaker 1: less and he's making more contact, So it seems like
Speaker 1: he's taking a more aggressive approach, but he's also making
Speaker 1: more contact at the pitches that he's swinging at. He's
Speaker 1: not you know, just Uh, he's not just the true
Speaker 1: three true ockcom guy that he was like last year, right,
Speaker 1: I think it was a software something like like we said,
Speaker 1: you know, like I think he's just had a bad year.
Speaker 1: Was his software year. He's just you know, it kind
Speaker 1: of crumbled on him. I think now the swing is violent, man,
Speaker 1: He's got a violent swing minds me of like a
Speaker 1: Gary Sheffield swing. Just so hard he swings. Uh, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a tonny. I think he's gonna break
Speaker 1: dirty homeless. To be honest, I think he'll break it.
Speaker 1: You might be able to. I mean, if this is right,
Speaker 1: now he's got he's already got five homers. This this
Speaker 1: could be. And this is what I said last year.
Speaker 1: Remember Florio and myself got into a scream match on
Speaker 1: the show last year and I was yelling at him, saying,
Speaker 1: Joan Moncatta is a league winner. He's a league winner.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that can be upside right and hit
Speaker 1: you know, runs and steal your twenty bases. He has
Speaker 1: that upside. He still does. Clearly it didn't come to
Speaker 1: fruition last year. Say I was wrong. He was not
Speaker 1: a league winner last year. But and he's still be
Speaker 1: a league winner in general, I think he answers yes, obviously,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can write him off yet and he's still
Speaker 1: so young, right, you gotta sometimes you can give guys
Speaker 1: a chance a little especially top prospects seemed to get
Speaker 1: written off more sooner than other prospects, right A lot
Speaker 1: of people did it with bucks into and for the
Speaker 1: Power right away. But he's performing well, he's got stole basis.
Speaker 1: He's got you know, like three or four I think, um, So,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you gotta be a little bit more
Speaker 1: patient with these with these top prospects, I know, if
Speaker 1: they let you down and you gotta be fantasy one year,
Speaker 1: don't give up on them right away. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at Hunter Dozer right now. This guy is a prospect
Speaker 1: years ago. Right now he's starting to get it right,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he wasn't a top prospect and
Speaker 1: that's why he's coming to light a little more than
Speaker 1: other guys, because we forgot about him as a prospect.
Speaker 1: And you know, he maybe he's he's changed everything and
Speaker 1: he found what he needed to do, the mechanics need
Speaker 1: to do to get it right and be a productive
Speaker 1: fantasy option. And Dozer goes over three last night, but
Speaker 1: he's he was batting third in the lineup. Last night
Speaker 1: they had wit mary Field. They gave Monesty the day off,
Speaker 1: but they had wit mary Field leading off, and then
Speaker 1: they had Alex Gordon batting second. So you know, on
Speaker 1: most days when when Monesty's in there and so is
Speaker 1: what Maryfield, Alex Gordon was still bad third. But if
Speaker 1: Hunter Doser is gonna beat fourth or fifth, a lot
Speaker 1: of those guys are gonna get on base ahead of him. So, guys,
Speaker 1: you know, that's part of the reason why I said
Speaker 1: I liked Alex Gordon. I don't love him, but the
Speaker 1: guys that are getting on in front of him, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have our RBI opportunities and and they're really fast,
Speaker 1: so all you have to do is hit a single
Speaker 1: there is he's got scoring yea true quickly. We have
Speaker 1: four minutes remainings. We're gonna jump around and hit on
Speaker 1: some things. Guys, just chiming, just chime in if you're interested.
Speaker 1: What is it Kantana against the Marlins. Need a good
Speaker 1: start parts it's the Marlins. He gave it to a
Speaker 1: seven innings shut out. Ball didn't walk anybody, struck out
Speaker 1: seven while allowing six hits. On the other side, Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez five innings, five hits, two runs, he strick out
Speaker 1: six Rankie, Yeah, I thought it was a nice bounce
Speaker 1: back performance for Pablo Lope because it wasn't spectacular, but
Speaker 1: five innings against a strong lineup only turned runs over
Speaker 1: a strike up or ending. I thought that was what
Speaker 1: you need to see from Pablo Lopez. I said last
Speaker 1: week I wouldn't drop him, and I'm sticking with that. Um,
Speaker 1: I want Pablo Lopez on my teams. Katana. This is
Speaker 1: now back to back starts with seven shutout endings, last
Speaker 1: time against the Pirates, now against the Marlins, and he
Speaker 1: do it against tougher competition. We're gonna find out soon.
Speaker 1: H it was it was venture night because he's sair
Speaker 1: bias homeward as well. Think I wouldn't I wouldn't sell
Speaker 1: high Jose Kanana because I liked him coming into the season.
Speaker 1: But if again, this is kind of similar to glass
Speaker 1: now situation. If you just kind of fell into Jose
Speaker 1: Kantana on your team, you didn't really love him, and
Speaker 1: he has these two starts back to back, and you
Speaker 1: are probably selling it maybe right here in that camp,
Speaker 1: but me personally, I like Jose Cantana. I don't own
Speaker 1: him anywhere, but I would. Um Javier Bayaz three for
Speaker 1: four you two runs scored, and listen, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna walk right. We know that he's just gonna
Speaker 1: hit and he's gonna have his oe for days because
Speaker 1: you know, he swings and misses a lot, strikes out
Speaker 1: a lot, but he's so powerful and talented with the
Speaker 1: speed and everything he's he's going to give you production,
Speaker 1: even though it might be a little consistent in the
Speaker 1: day to day basis, you know what I mean. For
Speaker 1: the braves who fell with the d Backs nine to six.
Speaker 1: Max Free continued his strong start with six innings of
Speaker 1: seven hit, ball, two runs, one walk. He should got threes.
Speaker 1: Earrais a microscopic zero point night to the story here
Speaker 1: for Atlanta's aj Minter gets rocked in the ninth, blowing
Speaker 1: the save um allowed. It's a tie game. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: blows the him still uh six to six comes in
Speaker 1: and gets gets lit up, while Greg Holland walked about
Speaker 1: of a trickout two for his third seed of the year.
Speaker 1: Robbie Robbie rays four walks, four ks standard Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: gives up a home run. Actually he wasn't standing. He
Speaker 1: didn't get the strikeouts really yesterday only four strikeouts very
Speaker 1: quietly greg Max Free doing his best Tyler glass Now impression. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about Tyler Glasgow, but they're not talking about
Speaker 1: Max Freed the same way. So he's another guy that
Speaker 1: normally has struggled with walks. He's had very good control
Speaker 1: to start the season. The strikeouts haven't necessarily been there,
Speaker 1: but it's just been quality started after quality started for
Speaker 1: Max Freed. Christian Walker once again. It's his fifth homer
Speaker 1: of the year. Many four still frank walkers from him
Speaker 1: and Ronald Cooney on the other side. Six Just stay hot, man,
Speaker 1: stay hot. Two more hits, home run saving his best
Speaker 1: Adrian Beltrey impression goes down to one knee last night.
Speaker 1: That was I don't know how he paid that pitch out.
Speaker 1: It was like a sinker bowl going well. It was
Speaker 1: super scooped. It just like upper cutting on. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: That's the power. He's got, real power. Man. For the
Speaker 1: last week he was eating one nineties and I was
Speaker 1: eating three twentie and he's got six home runs. If
Speaker 1: you you guys all drift in the first round. We
Speaker 1: all drift in first round. Here, we bought it and
Speaker 1: it's right because he's worth it. For the Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: Aaron Sanchez went six innings on four hits, four runs,
Speaker 1: four walks, struck out five. The big blow against Aaron
Speaker 1: Sanchez came on on Eddie Rosario, three runs shot in
Speaker 1: the six which cost him the quality start, and then
Speaker 1: he pits a little bit better than the line showed. Obviously,
Speaker 1: don't like the walks though. Yeah, this has always kind
Speaker 1: of been the bugaboo for Aaron Sanchez is he doesn't
Speaker 1: get enough strikeouts to mitigate the walks. I obviously was
Speaker 1: a big fan of Aaron Sanches coming in to this season,
Speaker 1: and you know, if he gets through that ending on skinny,
Speaker 1: then we're talking about what is the wonder and run
Speaker 1: rather than than the four he gives up the three
Speaker 1: run homer to Eddie Rosario. I still think there's a
Speaker 1: lot here to like with Aaron. Chances the velocity up.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna stay healthy because a ton of groundballs.
Speaker 1: I like him. I like him to a lot more
Speaker 1: baseball to come him today than a ton of games
Speaker 1: on the slate. And we can't wait to break it
Speaker 1: down with you tomorrow, all with our guys from inside
Speaker 1: injuries but Chris Ventcher and Frank Standfell. I am gregg sous,
Speaker 1: but I hope you enjoyed the show and we'll see
Speaker 1: you back here tomorrow. We